What impact does this have on Gillespie’s business? Would he have to give it up or simply keep the firm away from Virginia? How does Gillespie get along with the Marcus/Allen machine? How much Virginia experience does he have?

Gillespie greatly impressed me about 3 to 4 weeks before the election when I finished his book “Winning Right”. If this guy can give Virginia half of his expertise our party will be in great shape in the coming years. I still have a hard time believing a guy like Gillespie would want this position. He appears to have won over staunch conservatives which is very important as well. All the people over the last several years with so called “state experience” have really screwed things up so I think it is a great thing to have an outsider come in and maybe get the party going again from the grassroots up. If he is willing to take the job I firmly believe Gillespie will attempt heal the parties wounds over the past several election cycles and begin working toward bringing VA back red again.

I don’t think Gillespie’s fidelity to the pro-life movement has ever been in question.

“Get the tax and spend RINOs to get right and legislate like Republicans – then let the healing begin.”- I cannot argue that you are wrong there. I think getting rid of these liberal senators is the most important aspect. These folks have no business being in the state Republican Party. But I also think a certain segment of Republicans at least up in the 10th are never happy with anyone. They would not support Jerry Kilgore and they would also not support our long time Congressman Frank Wolf who has a strong pro life background. Calling either Frank Wolf or Jerry Kilgore a RINO is both stupid and foolish.

Which “liberal” senators are you talking about 10DR? I’ve always had the impression that the Virginia Senate’s insistence on sustainable revenue flows to meet project costs was a perfectly “conservative” fiscal stance. Maybe you’re referring to Democrats in that body, but I’ve certainly had the impression in recent years that the leadership of that chamber is more traditionally conservative in a fiscal sense than is the HD.

We will probably have to agree to disagree on the conservtiveness of the state senate. The problem with the state senate in my opinion is their project cost always seem to be rising. I am sick and tired of hearing the answer to everything in the state senate is tax increases. Why not take a look at the rising project costs? This criticism extends to the HD as well.

JAB (#13): I think the real culprit is Virginia’s primitive budgeting and forecasting methods. The surpluses reflect both inadequate forecasting and the inadequacy of GA budgeting from scratch on a short-cycle basis. The surpluses either have to be applied against non-recurring, one-off costs and expenses or returned (don’t ask me how this would work, I’m not there yet) to the taxpayors. But the general point made repeatedly by the fiscal conservatives in the State Senate is that long-term, systemic investments in recurring state items have to be supported by a reliable revenue flow. If it isn’t taxes, it can be something else (tithe commitments from rich bloggers?), but it has to be there. This is a fundamental conservative proposition. I wish the national Congress had an appreciation of this basic point.Ã‚Â I think the GOPÃ‚Â compnenet of the state Senate has largely been painted as a bogeyman by people who don’t like to have multi-syllable discussions about sound fiscal management.Ã‚Â

Mr t (#15): Maybe the protection is ask the RPV chairmen for a non-candidacy pledge. Mr. Gillespie probably (and quite correctly) reckons that the only way for the RPV to go is up, so this is a good job to take at this point.

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